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Zimbabwe businessman successfully challenges conviction, sentence
In a significant ruling, the High Court of Zimbabwe has quashed the conviction and five-year jail term previously imposed on Marondera businessman Francesco Marconati, stating that the lower court had...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:36hrs | 1552 | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses stands fraudsters appeal
The High Court has dismissed an appeal by two former Delatfin employees, Jacob Muyambo and Saymore Mutakura, who sought to overturn their convictions and 20-year prison sentences for defrauding their ...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 06:52hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
The abuse of power in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's government has been increasingly accused of using its legal machinery to silence dissenting voices and suppress freedom of speech.Activists and civil society organisations have been...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 10:02hrs | 266 | by Gary Gerald Mtombeni
Wadyajena gets luxury vehicles, trucks back
Former Gokwe legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has received his impounded luxurious vehicles and haulage trucks after the High Court ordered the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the Pro...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 09:47hrs | 1280 | by Paul Ndou
Dethroned 'Chief' faces arrest
Dethroned Chief Katerere, Alexio Nyamhute, faces potential arrest for defying a High Court order that declared his appointment unlawful. Despite Judge Isaac Muzenda's ruling, which invalidated Nyamhut...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:48hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Pius Ncube still doing the Lord's work
Archbishop Emeritus Pius Ncube, former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulawayo, has broken his silence nearly two decades after a sex scandal involving a married congregant, Rosemary Sibanda, in...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:49hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala delivers emotional testimony at UN summit
Opposition politician Job Sikhala addressed a United Nations Human Rights and Democracy Summit in Geneva, stating that his arrest exemplified the closure of democratic space in Zimbabwe.Sikhal...Published: 18 May 2024 at 11:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's zealots disrupts funeral
Moreblessing Ali's family was left fuming when the slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist's funeral in Chitungwiza Saturday was disrupted by political zealots who claimed loyalty to former...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 21:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters clash with Sikhala's at funeral
Two years after her tragic death, Moreblessing Ali, a prominent opposition political activist, was finally laid to rest on Saturday amidst chaotic scenes as supporters of former Citizens Coalition for...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Tensions as Chamisa and Sikhala fight over Moreblessing Ali arrangements
Factions within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are reportedly locked in a fierce battle for control over the funeral proceedings of Moreblessing Ali, scheduled to take place at Zororo Memoria...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 13:25hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sikhala ordered to stop press interviews
Zimbabwe opposition figure Job Sikhala reveals that he is currently facing renewed threats of arrest after being released from Chikurubi Maximum Prison, where he spent the past eighteen months in pret...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala raring to flex muscle
FORMER opposition Zengeza Member of Parliament, Job Sikhala, says he will embark on "Thank You" rallies for the support he received from ordinary citizens across the country while he was in detention....Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Leaderless citizens urged to rally behind Sikhala
CITIZENS have been urged to unite in calling for the unconditional release of Job Sikhala who appeared in court on Wednesday.The former Zengeza West legislator, who was on Wednesday convicted for inci...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's detention justified claims Ziyambi
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday said the detention of former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala is justified and government will not relent on his continued incarceration.Sikhala h...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Insiza: The land of gold and glory
INSIZA is a district in Matabeleland South Province and its capital, Filabusi, is 100km south of Bulawayo, along the Mbalabala/Zvishavane Road. The district boasts of a diverse landscape, with gentle ...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:21hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Moreblessing Ali's ghost visits Job Sikhala in prison
Incarcerated Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) politician Job Sikhala has disclosed that the spirit of the late Moreblessing Ali visited him in a dream, now reincarnated as an angel. Sikhala, who ha...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 08:43hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Stop praying for me and Zimbabwe,' says Sikhala
Dear Zimbabwean and Worldwide FriendsMy dearest friends, today marks exactly one and half years, that is, the full 18 months under persecution, incarceration in a meter by two and half meters ...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Job Sikhala
State has no witnesses, says Sikhala
FORMER Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala says he was never in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza, on the day violence broke out at the funeral of slain opposition party activist, Morebless...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 03:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pius Jamba convicted of CCC activist's murder
Pius Jamba, who was arrested in June of the previous year on charges of murdering CCC activist Moreblessing Ali, has been pronounced guilty by the High Court after a comprehensive trial. Throughout th...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 14:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa boasts of being Zimbabwe's 'CIO Godfather'
BY his own admission this week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the architect of Zimbabwe's brutal security system which has left a trail of human rights violations, abductions, forced disappearances ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moreblessing Ali's suspected killer's judgement set for November 27
The High Court is anticipated to deliver a verdict in the case of Pius Jamba Mukandi, who stands accused of the brutal murder of Moreblessing Ali, an activist from the Citizens Coalition of Change (CC...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Britain's Catherine Hoey, Jonathan Oates, Chief Ndiweni, Haruzivishe in UK protest
BRITISH Parliamentarians Catherine Hoey and Jonathan Oates Wednesday joined over 70 Zimbabweans at Parliament Square, London to protest the year-long incarceration of local lawmaker Job Sikhala in Har...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moreblessing Ali will not be buried until Job Sikhala is released
A year has gone by since the abduction, murder and dismemberment of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali and her remains are still to be buried.Ali's daughter, Nyasha ...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's trial to resume on June 12
THE trial in which opposition lawmaker Job Sikhala is accused of inciting public violence in Nyatsime area to avenge Moreblessing Ali's death will continue on June 12.This follows his request ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC activist not buried 1 year later
THE mother of slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali yesterday observed the first anniversary of her daughter's murder by suspected Zanu PF activist Pius Mukandi, alias Ja...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole incitement trial kicks off
A key state witnesses in Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole's violence incitement trial was at pains to support the allegations when the opposition legislators' trial kicked off Tuesday before Harare mag...Published: 16 May 2023 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga acquitted
ACCLAIMED writer Tsitsi Dangarembga and pro-democracy campaigner Julie Barns have been acquitted by the High Court following a successful appeal against their conviction and sentence for inciting publ...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mystery over CCC activist Ali's body deepens
THE family of murdered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali says it is failing to locate her body after State security agents seized it last year when it was found dumped in a...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We won't bury Moreblessing until Sikhala is free'
THE family of the slain Citizens' Coalition for Change activist, Moreblessing Ali, has told The NewsHawks that they are still waiting for the release of their incarcerated lawyer, Job Sikhala, to help...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moreblessing Ali's killer further remanded in custody
PIUS Mukandi, alias Jamba, the Chitungwiza man who allegedly killed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Moreblessing Ali in cold blood last year, has been further remanded in custody pending Hi...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says his detation is based on lies
INCARCERATED Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala yesterday said he has been detained for months based on a pack of lies.Sikhala made the comments when he appeared before Harare magistrat...Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala trial: Third witness testifies
THE third witness in the trial of Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala (CCC), Detective Assistant Inspector Hardwick Maziti was yesterday grilled by defence lawyers Harrison Nkomo and Jeremiah Bhamu ov...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elites perfect the catch-and-release strategy
THE release of Zanu-PF's Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena on grounds that the state was not ready for trial four months after arrest is proof of double standards and that the govern...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes Wadyajena head-on
Outspoken Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, challenged the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena's Cottco fraud case.Mliswa said NPA must t...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 15:52hrs | 10 | by Paul Ndou
Wadyajena removed from remand
HARARE regional magistrate Taurai Manuwere has ruled that Gokwe Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) has no case to answer in a matter he was accused of money-laundering and fraud charges i...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena acquitted in Cottco fraud case
Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena, who was accused of fraud has been set free pending completion of investigations after a Harare court granted his application for refusal for furthe...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 16:05hrs | 10 | by Paul Ndou
Chamisa's CCC worried over Job Sikhala's continued detention
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) national spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, Friday expressed discontent over the continued detention of the party's legislator Job Sikhala who has been in jail since June ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 08:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
State forced to abandon pauper's burial on Moreblessing Ali after family outcry
The state was Wednesday forced to abandon burial on Moreblessing Ali's mutilated remains after the slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist's children and other family members fiercely prote...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Catholic music competitions
TWENTY-SIX Roman Catholic Church choirs drawn from parishes in Hwange Diocese competed in the Saint Cecilia annual music competitions at Marist Brothers Secondary School in Dete on Saturday.St...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala seeks recusal of presiding magistrate
CITIZENS Coalition for Change Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala, who is accused of inciting public violence, has filed an application seeking recusal of presiding magistrate Tafadzwa Miti.Si...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala bail application deferred to today
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala's bail application has been deferred to today after the State failed to respond to the submissions made by his lawyers.Sikhala (Zenge...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala trial postponed
DETAINED Citizen's Coalition for Change (CCC), legislator-cum-interim deputy chairman, Job Sikhala had his trial postponed in absentia at the High Court Tuesday.The trial is now set to commenc...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 19:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says they want to jail him until 2023
ZENGEZA West MP Job Sikhala says there is a sinister political plot by the authorities to keep him in detention beyond the 2023 general elections, The NewsHawks reported.Sikhala, who celebrate...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala on world radar
THE Inter-Parliament Union (IPU), a global organisation of National Assemblies, has received and accepted an application to investigate the prolonged jailing of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) int...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala makes 8th attempt at freedom
ZENGEZA West MP and senior member of the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change, Job Sikhala, on Friday made an eighth attempt at freedom, citing changed circumstances.He is scheduled to ap...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena, Cottco bosses ruling date set
The ruling on Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Mayor Justice Wadyajena's application challenging his placement on remand on charges of fraud and money laundering involving funds allegedly misappropriated a...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
No violence since 2017, claims Zanu-PF
LEGISLATORS in the National Assembly have demanded that Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe must issue a ministerial statement explaining how his ministry will curb growing political violence in the...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala a pawn to force CCC into Polad'
LAWYER Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday claimed that legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole were being persecuted to force the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party to join the Political ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena appeal ruling set for Oct 5
Zanu-PF legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena's challenge against placement on remand where he faces fraud and money-laundering charges involving US$5,8 million has been set for October 5 for a hearing....Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's continued detention sparks protest
RESIDENTS of Chitungwiza Friday staged a flash demonstration demanding the release of incarcerated Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Job Sikhala.The demonstration was held about 300...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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